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IRE's Directors Back to IRE Staff |
Mark Horvit
Executive Director
Mark Horvit became IRE's executive director in January 2008. A longtime IRE member and native of Texas, Horvit most recently served as projects editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. His journalism career includes reporting and editing duties at The News Herald (Panama City, Fla.), Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times, The Houston Post, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune and The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer before joining the Star-Telegram, where he worked both as a reporter and an editor.
Jeff Porter
Database Library Director
Jeff Porter is director of the IRE and NICAR database library and has served as an instructor at the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Since 2001, he has provided ready-to-use government databases to hundreds of journalists. He helps lead computer-assisted reporting boot camps for journalists, and has spoken during journalism training events across the United States and in China, England and South Korea. He conducts and directs data analysis for broadcast and print investigative projects, including crime, justice, government spending, voting irregularities and more. Before coming to IRE, he worked 20 years as an award-winning newspaper journalist, served as adjunct college faculty, and co-created and hosted a weekly radio program. Immediately before joining IRE staff, he worked at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock as its computer-assisted reporting specialist, with data analysis, reporting and intranet management duties.
David Donald
Training Director
David Donald is the training director for Investigative Reporters and Editors and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting. In the past three years, he has coordinated and conducted more than 150 investigative and computer-assisted reporting workshops both in the United States. and abroad for print, broadcast and online journalists. He has spoken at conferences for editors' journalism organizations, minority journalism organizations and many beat-related organizations. He recently traveled to Great Britian and to South Korea to do training for journalists there. An award-winning reporter, Donald oversaw the CAR and research programs at the Savannah Morning News after stints on the education beat and the projects team. He has taught at the high school and college levels, including five years as an adjunct instructor at Savannah State University. He holds a master's in journalism from Kent State University.
Beth Kopine
Resource Center Director
Beth Kopine is the Eugene S. Pulliam research director for IRE. As such, she coordinates the collection, indexing and archiving of research materials within a center that now includes more than 23,250 investigative stories and 3,000 reporter tipsheets. She also coordinates the processing of the entries in the annual IRE Awards program. She previously served as visual resources curator for the art history and archaeology department at the University of Missouri. She has a master’s degree in library and information science and is active in the local True/False Film Festival.
